Fun summary of the long history of U.S. NSA and NIST working to insert backdoors into widely-used cryptographic standards: blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.h…

I've written this short note on how Neo compares to LatticeFold in their embedding from fields to polynomial rings, and how this relates to "pay-per-bit" commitment schemes and NTTs. Especially targeted to ZK practitioners who may be new to lattices! blog.icme.io/folding-scheme…

[New] End-to-End Encrypted Git Services (Ya-Nan Li and Yaqing Song and Qiang Tang and Moti Yung) ia.cr/2025/1208

Privacy *is* normal.

Good interview from Roman Storm. His trial is coming soon in 10 days. Privacy of messaging without backdoors is now widely accepted, and many in business and government regularly use tools like Signal. Given the extremely regular hacks of centralized databases that we see

The most powerful custody stack: Aptos Petra Vault + Keyless. Split signers across ledger, google, and apple for ultra strong security. Enterprise-grade infra—natively supported at the L1. Fully decentralized. Open-source. Easy ops, fast response time. Wildly underrated.

Quantum factoring paper of the year: eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

We may be dismissing entire branches of cryptography prematurely (RSA, class groups) because of a "looming" quantum threat. In 5 years, the Internet'll be deeply integrated w/ NIST-endorsed PQ crypto schemes that are less efficient and secure than their pre-quantum counterparts.

Publishing open source code is not a crime 🌪️

Aptos might just trigger the next bull run! This is not about speed or scalability. It's about giving financial institutions what they've been begging for: privacy without sacrificing verifiability. Broke down the tech + real-world use cases in simple terms 👇

A short blog on the Hyrax polynomial commitment scheme: alinush.github.io/hyrax